A Ukrainian unit is hunting down dozens of Russian drones with a flying double-barrel shotgun

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A Ukrainian unit is hunting down dozens of Russian drones with a flying double-barrel shotgun

Business Insider
By Matthew Loh
Mar 31, 2025

• A Ukrainian battalion has published a video of a shotgun-mounted drone destroying dozens of targets.
• It's one of the biggest footage collections of drones shooting down other drones.
• The tech is likely based on a World War I recoilless gun, which fires from both ends of a barrel.
• Propellers whirring over the frost-laden landscape, the Ukrainian drone approaches, twin barrels creeping toward the enemy bomber.

A flash erupts on its attached first-person view camera, and the target — a DJI Mavic drone — falls lifelessly to the ground.

Dozens of other attacks play in rapid succession, each showing the ends of two barrels blasting Mavics out of the sky.

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Footage showed a recoilless gun concept, where a quadcopter is fitted with long barrels designed to fire from both ends. One side aims at the target, while the opposite end fires to provide counter-recoil and keep the drone stable.

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https://www.businessinsider.com/ukrainians-hunting-russian-drones-flying-double-barrel-recoilless-shotgun-2025-4

[Smokin Joe]

Now mount semiautos with extended magazine tubes... Should come out to 14-16 shots depending on shell length, half that if both barrels facing one way are discharged (forward and back) at the same time.